1126                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 520

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 11B (c) and (d), 122, 124, 264 (a) and 452 of Article
27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition and 1966
Supplement), title "Crimes and Punishments," subtitles "Assault on
Police," "Disturbance of the Public Peace," "Drunkenness and Dis-
orderly Conduct," "Gaming," and "Posters, etc.," respectively, be
and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

11B.

(c)  This section is only applicable to Baltimore City and Allegany
County.

(d)  [The Municipal Court of] In Baltimore City, the Municipal
Court and Criminal Court shall have concurrent jurisdiction [with
the Criminal Court of Baltimore City] to try persons charged with
this offense; in Allegany County, the Circuit Court shall have juris-
diction.

122.

Any person who shall be found drunk or acting in a disorderly
manner to the disturbance of the public peace, or who shall wilfully
act in a disorderly manner by making loud and unseemly noises or
by profanely cursing, swearing or using obscene language, or by
indecently exposing his person on or about any public place or any
steamboat wharf, dock or public waiting room, or in or about the
station grounds of any railroad in the State, or in or on any steam-
boat, streetcar, electric car, railroad car, passenger train or other
public conveyance, or who shall wilfully catch hold of and solicit
persons against the will of said persons, or obstruct their free pass-
age to or through or out of such public place, steamboat wharves,
docks, public waiting rooms, railroad stations, streetcars, electric
cars, railroad cars, passenger trains or other public conveyance, shall
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to a fine of not less than five
dollars nor more than fifty dollars and costs, and when such fine
and costs are not paid, the party shall be committed for not less than
seven days or more than sixty days to the city or county jail, such
party to be released at any time before the term of his imprisonment
expires upon the payment of his fine and costs. The justices of the
peace for the respective counties of this State shall have concurrent
jurisdiction over such offense with the circuit courts for their respec-
tive counties; and any person who shall commit any of the crimes,
offenses or misdemeanors as defined by this section may be arrested,
tried and convicted, as herein provided, in any county or city in this
State where said public place may be located, or in any county or
city in this State, from, to or through which the said streetcar,
electric car, railroad car, passenger train, or other public convey-
ance may run, or into which he may be brought by said car or other
public conveyance; or in any county or city in the State in which
he may be found after said crimes, offenses or misdemeanors have
been committed. And any person who shall commit any of the
crimes, misdemeanors or offenses herein mentioned upon any steam-
boat, upon the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, within the limits of
this State, and without the body of any county thereof, may be
tried in any court or before any justice of the peace of this State
having jurisdiction of similar crimes, offenses and misdemeanors of